錐

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See also: 锥
錐 U+9310, 錐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9310
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 錑 →

Translingual

Han character

錐 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金人土 (COG), four-corner 80114, composition ⿰釒隹)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1309, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40536
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1811, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4221, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9310

Chinese

trad. 錐
simp. 锥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜼 *lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆 *tuːl
嵟 *tuːl
碓 *tuːls
推 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮 *duːlʔ
魋 *duːl
嶊 *stuːlʔ
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚 *ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎 *dul
顀 *dul
隹 *tjul
錐 *tjul
萑 *kljul
騅 *tjul
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰 *djul
脽 *djul

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 錐
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂuei⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
/t͡suei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suei²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂuei²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂue²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂuei²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fei²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂuɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /p͡fei³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡suei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡suei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡suei⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂuei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂuəi³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂue²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suei¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suei¹³/
Hohhot /t͡suei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sø⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡se̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷei³³/
Wenzhou /t͡sz̩³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕye³¹/
Tunxi /t͡se¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕyei³³/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕyəi³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sui⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sui⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søy⁵³/
Nanning /jui⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡søy⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sui⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡suoi⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sy⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sui³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /tui³⁵/
Rime
Character 錐
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職追切
Baxter tsywij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕʷi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cwi/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕui/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕwi/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕwi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhuī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zeoi1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 錐
Reading # 1/1
No. 17719
Phonetic
component 		隹
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		錐
Old
Chinese 		/*tjul/

Definitions

錐

  1. awl
  2. awl-like object
    冰錐／冰锥  ―  bīngzhuī  ―  icicle
  3. to drill; to bore
  4. cone; pyramid
    圓錐／圆锥  ―  yuánzhuī  ―  cone
    五角錐／五角锥  ―  wǔjiǎo zhuī  ―  pentagonal pyramid

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

錐

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
錐
きり
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

錐(きり) • (kiri) 

  1. a pointy tool used to make holes, such as a drill, a gimlet, an auger or an awl

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
錐
すい
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Middle Chinese 錐 (t͡ɕiuɪ)

Noun

錐(すい) • (sui) 

  1. Clipping of 錐体 (suitai, “cone or pyramid”).

See also

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

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Wikisource

錐 (eum 추 (chu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

錐: Hán Nôm readings: dùi

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